Mythic on WoW's WAR "Imitation"

There's a Warhamnmer Online: Age
of Reckoning interview on GamesIndustry.biz where Mark Jacobs discusses
Mythic's recently released MMORPG. An interesting bit that's
highlighted in a separate post is Mark's contention that PvP elements in the
upcoming World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King expansion are inspired
by the release of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning: "It wasn't like all
of a sudden the idea of open world PVP or leveling through PVP came into their
heads and went 'nobody's ever done this before'. I don't think it was accidental
that they're talking about doing it when Warhammer comes out. Four years and
suddenly, miraculously, at the same time Warhammer comes out that's when they
start talking about these things... I think it was Jeff Kaplan who said they
like to look at other games and learn from them - well, I'm flattered."